SUPPORT is growing for the UK to launch a full-scale ground war in Syria to help eradicate Islamic State, including putting British boots on the ground, a stunning new poll has found.

61 per cent of people who responded to the online poll said they supported 'full engagement'

Prime Minister David Cameron has pushed for UK jets to strike jihadi targets in the war-torn country, with MPs likely to vote on extending the RAF action to Syria before Christmas.

But a survey of more than 30,000 people carried out by Express.co.uk has revealed that the British public is not just overwhelmingly in favour of attacking ISIS militants in Syria from the air, but from the ground as well.

Related articles

Some 56% of people who responded to the online poll said they supported "full engagement" - meaning air strikes and UK troops stationed on the ground in combat roles.

It is the biggest litmus test yet for increased military action in the Middle East, with 25 per cent saying they backed air strikes but no 'boots on the ground'.

The results reveal a staggering 81 per cent of respondents are unhappy with the Government's current position and want to see a tougher response to blitz the extremists, who control around half of Syria.

GETTY

British soldier in the field during the Iraq war

PA

Prime Minister David Cameron stepping down from a C17 Globemaster transport plane

Just FIVE per cent urged the Government to stick to airstrikes in Iraq alone though 14 per cent said British forces should withdraw from all military action in the region.

Increasing calls for military action in Syria come on the back of terror attacks in Paris that 130 dead and hundreds injured.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the co-ordinated shootings and bombings and heightened security alerts across the world mean governments will have to look again at how they respond to the threat from jihadis.

MP's voted against airstrikes in Syria in 2013 but the Prime Minister insisted on Wednesday that the question of how to dismantle ISIS bases in Syria "cannot be dodged forever".

The PM also dismissed suggestions that the UK should only take military action if there was a UN security council resolution, saying he would not "outsource to Russian veto the decisions that we need to keep our country safe".

But he faces opposition from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has made clear he is opposed to the current UK airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq.

Airstrikes against ISIS

Sat, February 27, 2016

British, French, Russian and US forces launch air strikes around the world.

A senior Labour source said Mr Corbyn believed that "disastrous" Western interventions in the Middle East had harmed the security of people in the UK and had fuelled the rise of terrorist groups like ISIS.

A separate poll carried out in the wake of the Paris terror attacks revealed half the population would back sending ground troops into Syria.

The survey for the Mail found six in ten Britons wanted RAF jets to bomb ISIS and a similar number wanted to see British troops involved in a ground war.